US5837812A - Human islet, human brain and mouse brain glutamic acid decarboxylase GAD polypeptides - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the identification, cloning and sequencing of nucleic acid molecules encoding an isoform of the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase and further relates to the use of these molecules and/or peptides and polypeptides encoded thereby in diagnostic tests for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and other diseases in which glutamic acid decarboxylase is an autoantigen and in the treatment of patients suffering from these diseases.
- GAD glutamic acid decarboxylase
- GAD is co-precipitated with a separate 64K protein, the latter distinguished by tryptic products of M r 37,000/40,000 that are distinct from a M r 50,000 product of GAD.
- GAD comprises at least two isoforms encoded by separate genes (16, 17, 18).
- the predicted molecular weights of the known isoforms are approximately 67,000 and 65,000 (referred to as the "67K” and "65K” isoforms, respectively).
- the distribution of GAD isoforms in different tissues in still not well defined, but it is likely that the 65K isoform accounts for the GAD component of the 64K autoantigen (17).
- HB human brain
- HI human pancreatic islet
- MB mouse brain
- recombinant GAD proteins corresponding to the 67K isoform and their fragments and derivatives were used as an antigen to detect antibodies and T-cells reactive with GAD thereby forming a basis for a new range of diagnostics and therapeutics for diseases of the type including preclinical and clinical IDDM and SMS and other diseases in which GAD is an autoantigen.
- a first aspect of the present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes human or mouse glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) corresponding to a 67K isoform of the enzyme or antigenically active fragments or derivatives thereof.
- GAD glutamic acid decarboxylase
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a synthetic peptide or polypeptide displaying the antigenicity of all or a portion of the 67K isoform of GAD or a fragment thereof and reactive with autoantibodies and/or T-cells.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention contemplates a method for the detection of antibodies to GAD in a sample which method comprises contacting a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all or an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD with said sample for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex.
- Still yet another aspect of the present invention provides a method for detecting diseases of the type including IDDM and SMS, or for screening asymptomatic individuals, by the detection and/or determination of the titre of autoantibodies in a biological sample from said individual, said method comprising contacting said sample with a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all or an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD for a time and under conditions sufficient to form a complex between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex and/or the amount of peptide or polypeptide which has been bound in a complex
- the present invention also provides a method of reducing autoantibodies and/or autoreactive T-celis to GAD in a patient in need thereof and/or to desensitise or induce tolerance to eliminate or diminish reactivity of autoreactive T-cells or autoantibodies to the autoantigen, said method comprising administering to said patient GAD reactive T-cell lines or clones or cell membranes and/or receptors for the antigen from said GAD reactive T-cell lines or clones for a time and under conditions sufficient to act as immunogens to induce inhibition and/or reduction of T-cell responses to GAD autoantigen.
- FIG. 1 shows a comparison of the DNA sequences corresponding to human brain GAD (HBGAD); SEQ ID NO.:1 and human islet GAD (HIGAD); SEQ ID NO.:2.
- FIG. 2 shows the deduced amino acid sequences of HBGAD (SEQ ID NO.:3) and HIGAD (SEQ ID NO.:4) and their alignment with the equivalent region in the feline GAD (SEQ ID NO.:5) (amino acids 218-398).
- FIG. 3 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the full length mouse brain GAD (MBGAD) (SEQ ID NO.:6).
- FIG. 4 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the N-terminal fragment of MBGAD designated MBGAD12 (SEQ ID NO.:7) that encodes amino acids 1-204 of the published feline GAD sequence (10).
- FIG. 5 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the mid-region fragment of MBGAD, designated MBGAD34 (SEQ ID NO.:8) corresponding to amino acids 198-404 of the published feline GAD sequence.
- FIG. 6 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the C-terminal fragment of MBGAD, designated MBGAD56 (SEQ ID NO.:9) corresponding to amino acids 392-593 of the published feline GAD sequence.
- FIG. 7 shows the full length nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to human brain GAD (HBGAD-FL); (SEQ ID NO.:10).
- FIG. 8 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the N-terminal fragment of HBGAD, designated HBGAD17 (SEQ ID NO.:11) corresponding to amino acids 1-250 of the published feline GAD sequence.
- FIG. 9 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the mid region fragment of HBGAD or HIGAD, designated HBGAD14 or HIGAD14 (SEQ ID NO.:12) corresponding to amino acids 208-404 of the published feline GAD sequence.
- FIG. 10 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the C-terminal region fragment of HBGAD, designated HBGAD65 (SEQ ID NO.:13), corresponding to amino acid 392-594 of the published feline GAD sequence.
- FIG. 11 shows the full length nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to human islet GAD (HIGAD-FL); (SEQ ID NO.:14).
- the present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes human or mouse glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) corresponding to a 67K isoform of the enzyme or antigenically active fragments or derivatives thereof.
- GAD glutamic acid decarboxylase
- 67K isoform is meant the form of GAD having approximately M r 67,000 and/or any fragments, derivatives, homologues and/or immunological relatives thereof and which are distinguishable and/or otherwise distinct from the M r 65,000 form of GAD and which reacts preferentially to T-cells and/or autoantibodies from individuals with clinical or preclinical IDDM, SMS and/or other similar diseases.
- the GAD is human pancreatic islet GAD (HIGAD), human brain cell GAD (HBGAD) and/or mouse brain cell GAD (MBGAD).
- the nucleic acid molecule is DNA, at least a part of which has a nucleotide sequence substantially corresponding to the sequence shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 or a fragment, derivative, homologue or or immunological relative thereof or one or more sequences complementary thereto.
- the present invention however also extends to any single or multiple nucleotide substitutions, deletions and/or additions to the sequence shown in FIGS.
- the ribonucleotide sequence will, in a preferred embodiment, be substantially complementary to one or more of the sequences shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 or a fragment, derivative, or homolgue thereof.
- the present invention also provides a recombinant nucleic acid (e.g. DNA) molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence as described above operably linked to an expression control sequence.
- a recombinant molecule may, for example, comprise an expression vector.
- the present invention further extends to a host cell such as a bacterium, yeast, mammalian or insect cell transformed with such a recombinant molecule.
- a preferred mammalian cell line is the Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell line.
- Another aspect of this invention is directed to a synthetic (e.g. recombinant) peptide or polypeptide displaying the antigenicity of all or a portion of an isoform of GAD which is reactive with autoantibodies and/or T-cells.
- a synthetic (e.g. recombinant) peptide or polypeptide displaying the antigenicity of all or a portion of an isoform of GAD which is reactive with autoantibodies and/or T-cells.
- Such a synthetic peptide or polypeptide may, for example, be prepared by recombinant means such as by the expression of a host cell transformed with the recombinant molecules described above.
- the peptide or polypeptide may be fused to another peptide or polypeptide.
- it may be prepared by chemical synthesis, such as by the well-known Merrifield solid-phase synthesis procedure.
- the synthetic (eg. recombinant) peptide or polypeptide may or may not retain GAD enzymatic activity.
- synthetic GAD or fragments thereof represent a preferred embodiment, the present invention also emends to biologically pure preparations of the naturally occurring enzyme or its fragrments.
- biologically pure is meant a preparation of at least 60%, preferably at least 70%, more preferably at least 80% and still more preferably at least 90% by weight enzyme.
- the present invention extends to naturally occurring or synthetic peptide or polypeptides corresponding to MBGAD, HIGAD and/or HBGAD and to nucleotide sequences coding for same as well as to fragments, derivatives, homolgoues or immunological relatives thereof.
- fragments are shown in FIGS. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10.
- derivatives is meant to include any single or multiple amino acid substitution, deletion and/or addition relative to the naturally occurring sequence or to the sequence as shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 and including any single or multiple substitution, deletion and/or addition to other molecules associated with the peptide or polypeptide including carbohydrate lipid and/or other proteinacious moieties.
- Such derivatives therefore, include glycosylated or non-glycosylated forms or molecules with altered glyclosylation patterns.
- the present invention also contemplates a method for the detection of autoantibodies associated with IDDM which method comprises contacting a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all, or an antigenic portion of, GAD, which GAD corresponds to the 67K isoform of the enzyme, or a fragment or derivative thereof with a biological sample from a patient to be tested for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex.
- the biological sample is serum.
- the peptide or polypeptide is immobilised onto a solid support before, during or after contact with the serum. Methods of detection are well known and include colorimetric, fluorometric and radioactive procedures.
- detection means can also be used such as involving agglutination.
- This assay can be varied in any number of ways without departing from the scope of the present invention.
- the present invention also extends to the use of a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67K isoform of GAD, or antigenic fragments thereof, as an antigen in a diagnostic test for diseases of the type including IDDM and SMS, or for screening asymptomatic individuals by detection or determination of the titre of antibodies in a patient's serum, for example using ELISA or RIA technology or an agglutination assay using antigen-coated beads or the like.
- This aspect of the present invention may conveniently be carried out by the detection and/or determination of the titre of autoantibodies in a biological sample (e.g. serum) from a human subject, said method comprising contacting said sample with a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD or a fragment or derivative thereof for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex and/or amount of peptide or polypeptide which has been bound in the complex.
- the peptide or polypeptide is immobilised onto a solid support before, during or after contact with the sample and the peptide or polypeptide is as hereinbefore defined.
- such diseases may be detected or at least a negative result re-confirmed or otherwise by screening for GAD associated immune complexes. It is possible, for example, that a negative autoantibody result could have been caused by autoantibodies forming complexes with GAD thereby not being available for binding in the aforementioned assay.
- an anti-GAD antibody e.g. a monoclonal antibody
- the anti-GAD antibody is first immobilised onto a solid support.
- An anti-immunoglobulin antibody generally with a label or other reporter molecule attached, is then used to screen for the antibody component of the GAD complex.
- the invention also extends to use of the peptides and/or polypeptides, or fragments, or derivatives of the present invention in the treatment of patients.
- methods of treatment include their use as an adsorbent to remove autoantibodies or autoreactive cells from a patient, their use in direct administration to a patient as a means of desensitising or inducing tolerance to eliminate or diminish reactivity of autoreactive T-cells or autoantibodies to the IDDM autoantigen or to generate T-cell lines or clones to be used for or as therapeutic agents.
- the method of treatment includes but is not limited to the following examples of treatment.
- a first example of treatment is desensitisation or tolerance induction using an effective amount of GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof to alter T-cell recognition of GAD and induce T-cell suppression. This may be achieved by using the known effect of certain ultraviolet wavelengths, especially UV-B, to modify antigen presentation through the skin (see 19). Effective amounts of GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof would be applied epicutaneously to the skin of subjects exhibiting peripheral blood T-cell reactivity to GAD, after exposure of skin to UV-B radiation. Treatment would be repeated until such time that T-cell reactivity to GAD was suppressed.
- a second treatment involves application of GAD to the skin together with one or more cytokines such as but not limited to TNF ⁇ or ⁇ .
- a third treatment involves T-cell immunisation whereby T-cell lines are generated to GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof by standard procedures, calls attenuated by fixation with agents such as glutaraldehyde or paraformaldehyde, washed under sterile conditions and re-injected to patients for a time and under conditions causing suppression of the endogenous T-cell response to GAD.
- the effective amount of GAD peptide or polypeptide is 0.1 ⁇ g to 10 mg per dose and preferably 1.0 ⁇ g to 1 mg per dose.
- a dose may comprise a single administration or an administration protocol.
- Administration may be by any convenient means such as, but not limited to, intravenous, subcutaneous, epicutaneous, infusion, oral, topical, intranasal, supository or intraperitoneal administration.
- the GAD peptide or polypeptide may be administered alone or in combination with one or more other active molecules, molecules which facilitate the GAD peptide or polypeptide activity such as cytokines, and in particular, TNF- ⁇ and/or TNF- ⁇ .
- the present invention contemplates the use of a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67K isoform of GAD, or antigenic fragments or derivatives thereof, to measure reactivity of a patient's cells to the IDDM autoantigen.
- the peptide or polypeptide, or fragments or derivatives thereof may be added, in solution or bound to a solid support together with cells from a patient derived from peripheral blood or from tissue biopsies either unfractionated, fractionated or derived as a continuous cell line.
- Reactivity to the autoantigen may then be measured by standard proliferation assays such as incorporation of tritiated thymidine, standard cytotoxic assays such as release of marker radioactivity from target cells, measurements of expressed or secreted molecules such as cytokines or other standard assays of cellular reactivity which are well known in the art.
- standard proliferation assays such as incorporation of tritiated thymidine
- standard cytotoxic assays such as release of marker radioactivity from target cells
- measurements of expressed or secreted molecules such as cytokines or other standard assays of cellular reactivity which are well known in the art.
- a diagnostic kit for assaying patient T-cells Standard 96 well plates, as used in ELISA assays, are pre-coated with a monoclonal antibody (MAb) to a T-cell cytcokine such as ⁇ -interferon ( ⁇ -IFN) with or without antigen. Alternatively, antigen is added in soluble form together with aliquots of peripheral blood mononuclear cells or T-cells.
- MAb monoclonal antibody
- ⁇ -IFN ⁇ -interferon
- antigen is added in soluble form together with aliquots of peripheral blood mononuclear cells or T-cells.
- Incubation is allowed to proceed for two or more days, the cells are washed off, wells washed again and plates developed with a labelled second MAb to the cytokine such as anti- ⁇ -FN conjugated with alkaline phosphatase or horseradish peroxidase. Colorimetric reaction and read-out systems can then be utilised. Alternatively, it is possible to visualise microscopically individual spots on bottoms of wells representing cytokine produced at the single T-cell level, thereby enabling the precursor frequency of antigen-reactive T-cells to be determined.
- a labelled second MAb to the cytokine such as anti- ⁇ -FN conjugated with alkaline phosphatase or horseradish peroxidase.
- Colorimetric reaction and read-out systems can then be utilised.
- kits and diagnostic assays including a kit comprising a container adapted to contain a synthetic peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67 isoform of GAD or its fragments, derivatives, homologues and/or immunological relatives.
- the kit may contain a second container adapted to contain or receive a sample to be tested.
- a third container may be present adapted to contain reagents for detecting GAD-antibody complexes.
- the kit may comprise one or more containers (e.g. wells) adapted to contain a GAD specific antibody (e.g. a monoclonal antibody). Additional containers with the kit may then contain recepticles for receiving fluid samples and a labelled antibody.
- expression of the cDNA insert encoding the GAD's described herein or fragments thereof may be achieved in a number of different ways.
- successful expression of the autoantigen as a fusion protein can be achieved using the pGEX vectors which give expression of glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins, using E. coli as the host cells. Expression could also be achieved, by way of example, using the well-known pEV vectors or the, polyhistidine expression vectors (23) again using E. coli as the host cells. Alternatively, GAD may be expressed as a non-fused polypeptide, by using appropriate vector and host cell combinations.
- Other vector and host cell combinations which can be used in accordance with the present invention including a number of well described yeast shuttle vectors for use in yeast cells, or eukaryotic vectors useful in continuous cell lines, (eg CHO cells) or transgenic animals.
- Mouse RNA was obtained from brains of BALB/C mice.
- RNA was obtained from human adult brain and pancreatic islets. Islets were isolated from a donor pancreas by an intraductal collagenase distension procedure. Individually hand-picked islets were lysed in 5M guanidinium isothiocynate, 10 mM Tris pH 7.6, 10 mM EDTA and RNA purified by centrifugation through a 5.7M CsCl cushion. Total RNA from human brain was a gift of Claude Bernard from Latrobe University School of Behavioural Science, Australia.
- Human cDNA libraries Two ⁇ gt-11 based human cDNA expression libraries were used as a source of GAD cDNA.
- a brain-stem cDNA library was purchased from Clonetech and the islet-cell library was a gift of Alan Permutt from the Washington School of Medicine, St. Louis.
- cDNA was prepared from phage stocks by a plate lysis method (20).
- PCR Polymease chain reaction
- oligonucleotide primers were designed from conserved regions. The primers used to isolate the various clones are shown in Table 1.
- First strand synthesis of total RNA (1 ⁇ g) was performed in 10 mM Tris pH 8.3, 50 mM KCl, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 100 ⁇ M dNTPs (PCR buffer) containing 2 pmole of complimentary primer, 40 U of RNasin and 5 U of MoMLV reverse transcriptase at 37° C. for 30 min in a 50 ⁇ l reaction volume.
- ⁇ gt-11 cDNA 100 ng or 10 ⁇ l of the first strand reaction was amplified in PCR buffer containing 20 pmole of each primer and 2.5 U of TaqI polymerase by 30 thermal cycles (one cycle: 1.5 min at 95° C.; 2.0 min at 37°-45° C.; 2.0 min at 72° C.). Reactions were analysed on low melting agarose gels and products of the expected size purified by phenol extraction (20).
- PCR amplified DNA fragments were cloned into the plasmid expression vector pGEX 1-3(21) and also into the histidine expression vector pDS56,(-1) and (-2) (23).
- Nucleotide sequence was determined by the dideoxy chain termination method (22) using the M13 universal primer and specific primers (RGAD 1, SEQ ID NO.: 15; RGAD2, SEQ ID NO.: 16; RGAD3, SEQ ID NO.: 17; RGAD4, SEQ ID NO.: 18; RGAD5, SEQ ID NO.: 19; RGAD6, SEQ ID NO.: 20; GAD1, SEQ ID NO.: 21; GAD5, SEQ ID NO.: 22; GAD7, SEQ ID NO.: 23) designed from internal GAD sequence, as described in Table 1.
- oligonucleotide pairs overlapping nucleotide stretches conserved between rat and feline sequences were synthesised and used in PCR reactions to amplify cDNA extracted from brain and islet ⁇ t-11 expression libraries as well as from RNA extracted from human brain or human islets.
- extensive PCR reactions using various combinations of oligonucleotide primers and temperatures of annealing a product of 600 nucleotides was obtained from both brain and islet cDNA templates with the oligonucleotides primers:
- FIG. 2 shows the deduced amino acid sequences of HBGAD and HIGAD and their alignment with the corresponding region in the feline GAD protein (aa 218-393).
- the four nucleotide differences between HBGAD and HIGAD would result in three conservative amino acid changes at residues 247 (leucine ⁇ isoleucine) and 260 (threonine ⁇ isoleucine) and 248 (phenylalanine ⁇ leucine); residue 339 (leucine) remains unchanged because the nucleotide difference at position 366 is silent.
- pancreatic islets Infiltration of the pancreatic islets with mononuclear cells culminates in the destruction of insulin-producing ⁇ cells and clinical IDDM (20).
- the enzyme GAD has recently been identified as a putative islet autoantigen in IDDM based on the ability of several IDDM sera to co-precipitate the 64K islet cell protein and GAD (14) and it has been shown that peripheral blood T cells from subjects with pre-clinical and clinical IDDM can be activated by islet membrane preparations containing the 64K autoantigen and GAD (24, 25).
- the finding of sequence differences between brain and islet GAD may now provide a genetic basis for selective autoimmune destruction of pancreatic islets.
- GAD 5 SEQ ID NO: 22 5' CCCATAAACTCATGTTCTTG 3'
- GAD 7 SEQ ID NO: 23 5' GGAGAAAATATCCCATCACC 3'
- amplification of the GAD7 and GAD5 first strand products by PCR using GAD specific oligonucleotides generated a cDNA encoding aa 1-250 HBGAD17 and an overlapping cDNA that encodes aa 208-594.
- One hundred nanograms of each fragment was denatured at 95° C.
- Mouse Brain GAD was cloned as described above for HBGAD and HIGAD except that primers RGAD1 and RGAD6 (Table 1) were used.
- PBMC Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
- the recombinant GAD fusion proteins HBGAD and HIGAD which contain the 196 amino acid middle portions of human brain and human islet GAD respectively, as described in Table 1 were added to final concentrations of 10, 1.0 and 0.1 ⁇ g/ml, together with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) to which the recombinant GAD antigen is fused.
- GST glutathione-S-transferase
- Sonicated fetal pig islets which the present inventors have shown to contain GAD (24), as well as fetal pig liver, thyroid and kidney were also used as sources of antigen(s).
- the cultures were incubated for 5 days in a humidified 5% CO 2 atmosphere with the addition of 3 H-thymidine (1 ⁇ Ci/well) for the last 17 hours. The cells were then harvested for scintillation counting. Median counts per minute (cpm) of each quadruplicate were used to derive stimulation indices, ie. cpm with antigen/cpm without antigen. A positive result was defined as a stimulation index greater than that obtained with GST (recombinant GAD proteins or greater than 2.0 (fetal tissues).
- Sera samples from subjects were tested for an antibody response to the N-terminal fragment of recombinant murine brain GAD, MBGAD12 as well as against the full length recombinant human brain GAD.
- Recombinant mouse brain GAD12 was cloned and expressed as a fusion protein with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) in the pGEX system.
- MBGAD12 was cleaved with thrombin and the GAD portion affinity purified from GST using glutathione agarose beads.
- MBGAD34, MBGAD56, HBGAD17 and HBGAD65 were cloned and expressed as fusion proteins with six histidine residues at the N-terminus using the polyhistidine expression system.
- the recombinant GAD proteins were coated at 1 ⁇ g/mL on plastic wells of a 96-well plate, wells were exposed to blocking buffer, washed and incubated with doubling dilutions of test sera, washed and exposed to alkaline phosphatase--conjugated second antibody, washed, developed with n-nitrophenol chromogen and read at 405 nM. An OD>mean+2 SD with control sera was taken as positive.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the identification, cloning and sequencing of nucleic acid molecules encoding an isoform of the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase and further relates to the use of these molecules and/or peptides and polypeptides encoded thereby in diagnostic tests for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and other diseases in which glutamic acid decarboxylase is an autoantigen and in the treatment of patients suffering from these diseases.
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This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/839,805 filed on Feb. 21, 1992, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to the identification, cloning and sequencing of nucleic acid molecules encoding an isoform of the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase and further relates to the use of these molecules and/or peptides and polypeptides encoded thereby in diagnostic tests for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and other diseases in which glutamic acid decarboxylase is an autoantigen and in the treatment of patients suffering from these diseases.
The enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase (hereinafter referred to as "GAD") catalyses the conversion of L-glutamic acid to the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-amino butyric acid (hereinafter referred to as "GABA"). GAD is expressed both in the GABA secretory neurons of the central nervous system (1-3), in the β-cells of the pancreas (4,5), and in spermatoza (6). Analysis of imtmunoaffinity-purified, enzymatically active brain GAD has identified several isomeric forms of GAD with Mr 54-67,000 (7,8). Using antisera raised to purified brain GAD to screen brain cDNA expression libraries, cDNAs encoding full length rat (9) and feline (10) GAD sequences have been isolated and sequenced. Comparisons of the deduced amino acid sequences of rat and feline GAD show that both proteins are 95% identical and, therefore, highly conserved during evolution.
Autoantibodies reactive with GAD in GABA-ergic neurons are present in the majority of sera from patients with the rare neurological disease Stiff Man Syndrome (hereinafter referred to "SMS"; 11,12). Patients positive for GAD autoantibodies have an increased frequency of polyendocrine autoimmunity especially Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (hereinafter referred to as "IDDM"). During the pre-clinical stage of IDDM and in patients with recent onset clinical IDDM, autoantibodies are frequently detected against an islet cell Mr 64,000 protein designated "64K" (13). In a recent report, the 64K autoantigen was presumptively identified as GAD (14). However, Genovese (15) has suggested that GAD is co-precipitated with a separate 64K protein, the latter distinguished by tryptic products of Mr 37,000/40,000 that are distinct from a Mr 50,000 product of GAD. GAD comprises at least two isoforms encoded by separate genes (16, 17, 18). The predicted molecular weights of the known isoforms are approximately 67,000 and 65,000 (referred to as the "67K" and "65K" isoforms, respectively). The distribution of GAD isoforms in different tissues in still not well defined, but it is likely that the 65K isoform accounts for the GAD component of the 64K autoantigen (17).
In work leading up to the present invention, the inventors sought to clone the 67K isoform of GAD from human and other species for potential diagnostic and/or therapeutic use. In accordance with the present invention, human brain (HB), human pancreatic islet (HI) and mouse brain (MB) GAD (hereinafter referred to as "HBGAD", "HIGAD" and "MBGAD", respectively) have been cloned and sequenced. In further accordance with the present invention, recombinant GAD proteins corresponding to the 67K isoform and their fragments and derivatives were used as an antigen to detect antibodies and T-cells reactive with GAD thereby forming a basis for a new range of diagnostics and therapeutics for diseases of the type including preclinical and clinical IDDM and SMS and other diseases in which GAD is an autoantigen.
Accordingly, a first aspect of the present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes human or mouse glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) corresponding to a 67K isoform of the enzyme or antigenically active fragments or derivatives thereof.
Another aspect of the present invention provides a synthetic peptide or polypeptide displaying the antigenicity of all or a portion of the 67K isoform of GAD or a fragment thereof and reactive with autoantibodies and/or T-cells.
Yet another aspect of the present invention contemplates a method for the detection of antibodies to GAD in a sample which method comprises contacting a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all or an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD with said sample for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex.
Still yet another aspect of the present invention provides a method for detecting diseases of the type including IDDM and SMS, or for screening asymptomatic individuals, by the detection and/or determination of the titre of autoantibodies in a biological sample from said individual, said method comprising contacting said sample with a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all or an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD for a time and under conditions sufficient to form a complex between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex and/or the amount of peptide or polypeptide which has been bound in a complex
Even yet another method of reducing autoantibodies and/or autoreactive T-cells to GAD in a patient in need thereof and/or to desensitise or induce tolerance to eliminate or diminish reactivity of autoreactive T-cells or autoantibodies to the autoantigen, said method comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of an antigenic peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all or part of the 67K isoform of GAD.
The present invention also provides a method of reducing autoantibodies and/or autoreactive T-celis to GAD in a patient in need thereof and/or to desensitise or induce tolerance to eliminate or diminish reactivity of autoreactive T-cells or autoantibodies to the autoantigen, said method comprising administering to said patient GAD reactive T-cell lines or clones or cell membranes and/or receptors for the antigen from said GAD reactive T-cell lines or clones for a time and under conditions sufficient to act as immunogens to induce inhibition and/or reduction of T-cell responses to GAD autoantigen.
FIG. 1 shows a comparison of the DNA sequences corresponding to human brain GAD (HBGAD); SEQ ID NO.:1 and human islet GAD (HIGAD); SEQ ID NO.:2.
FIG. 2 shows the deduced amino acid sequences of HBGAD (SEQ ID NO.:3) and HIGAD (SEQ ID NO.:4) and their alignment with the equivalent region in the feline GAD (SEQ ID NO.:5) (amino acids 218-398).
FIG. 3 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the full length mouse brain GAD (MBGAD) (SEQ ID NO.:6).
FIG. 4 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the N-terminal fragment of MBGAD designated MBGAD12 (SEQ ID NO.:7) that encodes amino acids 1-204 of the published feline GAD sequence (10).
FIG. 5 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the mid-region fragment of MBGAD, designated MBGAD34 (SEQ ID NO.:8) corresponding to amino acids 198-404 of the published feline GAD sequence.
FIG. 6 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the C-terminal fragment of MBGAD, designated MBGAD56 (SEQ ID NO.:9) corresponding to amino acids 392-593 of the published feline GAD sequence.
FIG. 7 shows the full length nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to human brain GAD (HBGAD-FL); (SEQ ID NO.:10).
FIG. 8 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the N-terminal fragment of HBGAD, designated HBGAD17 (SEQ ID NO.:11) corresponding to amino acids 1-250 of the published feline GAD sequence.
FIG. 9 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the mid region fragment of HBGAD or HIGAD, designated HBGAD14 or HIGAD14 (SEQ ID NO.:12) corresponding to amino acids 208-404 of the published feline GAD sequence.
FIG. 10 shows the nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to the C-terminal region fragment of HBGAD, designated HBGAD65 (SEQ ID NO.:13), corresponding to amino acid 392-594 of the published feline GAD sequence.
FIG. 11 shows the full length nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence corresponding to human islet GAD (HIGAD-FL); (SEQ ID NO.:14).
The present invention provides a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes or is complementary to a sequence which encodes human or mouse glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) corresponding to a 67K isoform of the enzyme or antigenically active fragments or derivatives thereof.
By the "67K isoform" is meant the form of GAD having approximately Mr 67,000 and/or any fragments, derivatives, homologues and/or immunological relatives thereof and which are distinguishable and/or otherwise distinct from the Mr 65,000 form of GAD and which reacts preferentially to T-cells and/or autoantibodies from individuals with clinical or preclinical IDDM, SMS and/or other similar diseases.
Preferably, the GAD is human pancreatic islet GAD (HIGAD), human brain cell GAD (HBGAD) and/or mouse brain cell GAD (MBGAD). Preferably, the nucleic acid molecule is DNA, at least a part of which has a nucleotide sequence substantially corresponding to the sequence shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 or a fragment, derivative, homologue or or immunological relative thereof or one or more sequences complementary thereto. The present invention, however also extends to any single or multiple nucleotide substitutions, deletions and/or additions to the sequence shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 and which still encode a GAD or fragment or derivative thereof having the requisite antigenic profile and reactive with autoantibodies or T-cells. Furthermore, when the nucleic acid molecule is RNA, the ribonucleotide sequence will, in a preferred embodiment, be substantially complementary to one or more of the sequences shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 or a fragment, derivative, or homolgue thereof.
The present invention also provides a recombinant nucleic acid (e.g. DNA) molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence as described above operably linked to an expression control sequence. Such a recombinant molecule may, for example, comprise an expression vector. The present invention further extends to a host cell such as a bacterium, yeast, mammalian or insect cell transformed with such a recombinant molecule. A preferred mammalian cell line is the Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell line.
Another aspect of this invention is directed to a synthetic (e.g. recombinant) peptide or polypeptide displaying the antigenicity of all or a portion of an isoform of GAD which is reactive with autoantibodies and/or T-cells.
Such a synthetic peptide or polypeptide may, for example, be prepared by recombinant means such as by the expression of a host cell transformed with the recombinant molecules described above. The peptide or polypeptide may be fused to another peptide or polypeptide. Alternatively, it may be prepared by chemical synthesis, such as by the well-known Merrifield solid-phase synthesis procedure. The synthetic (eg. recombinant) peptide or polypeptide may or may not retain GAD enzymatic activity. Furthermore, although synthetic GAD or fragments thereof represent a preferred embodiment, the present invention also emends to biologically pure preparations of the naturally occurring enzyme or its fragrments. By "biologically pure" is meant a preparation of at least 60%, preferably at least 70%, more preferably at least 80% and still more preferably at least 90% by weight enzyme.
In a most preferred embodiment, the present invention extends to naturally occurring or synthetic peptide or polypeptides corresponding to MBGAD, HIGAD and/or HBGAD and to nucleotide sequences coding for same as well as to fragments, derivatives, homolgoues or immunological relatives thereof. By way of example, such fragments are shown in FIGS. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. By "derivatives" is meant to include any single or multiple amino acid substitution, deletion and/or addition relative to the naturally occurring sequence or to the sequence as shown in FIGS. 1, 3, 7 and/or 11 and including any single or multiple substitution, deletion and/or addition to other molecules associated with the peptide or polypeptide including carbohydrate lipid and/or other proteinacious moieties. Such derivatives, therefore, include glycosylated or non-glycosylated forms or molecules with altered glyclosylation patterns.
The present invention also contemplates a method for the detection of autoantibodies associated with IDDM which method comprises contacting a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to all, or an antigenic portion of, GAD, which GAD corresponds to the 67K isoform of the enzyme, or a fragment or derivative thereof with a biological sample from a patient to be tested for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex. Preferably, the biological sample is serum. Even more preferably, the peptide or polypeptide is immobilised onto a solid support before, during or after contact with the serum. Methods of detection are well known and include colorimetric, fluorometric and radioactive procedures.
Other detection means can also be used such as involving agglutination. This assay can be varied in any number of ways without departing from the scope of the present invention.
The present invention also extends to the use of a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67K isoform of GAD, or antigenic fragments thereof, as an antigen in a diagnostic test for diseases of the type including IDDM and SMS, or for screening asymptomatic individuals by detection or determination of the titre of antibodies in a patient's serum, for example using ELISA or RIA technology or an agglutination assay using antigen-coated beads or the like.
This aspect of the present invention may conveniently be carried out by the detection and/or determination of the titre of autoantibodies in a biological sample (e.g. serum) from a human subject, said method comprising contacting said sample with a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to an antigenic portion of the 67K isoform of GAD or a fragment or derivative thereof for a time and under conditions sufficient for a complex to form between the peptide or polypeptide and an antibody reactive to GAD and then detecting the complex and/or amount of peptide or polypeptide which has been bound in the complex. Preferably, the peptide or polypeptide is immobilised onto a solid support before, during or after contact with the sample and the peptide or polypeptide is as hereinbefore defined.
Alternatively, such diseases may be detected or at least a negative result re-confirmed or otherwise by screening for GAD associated immune complexes. It is possible, for example, that a negative autoantibody result could have been caused by autoantibodies forming complexes with GAD thereby not being available for binding in the aforementioned assay. To conveniently detect GAD immune complexes, serun or other biological fluid is contacted with an anti-GAD antibody (e.g. a monoclonal antibody) for a time and under conditions sufficient for a GAD-autoantibody immune complex to bind.
Preferably, the anti-GAD antibody is first immobilised onto a solid support. An anti-immunoglobulin antibody, generally with a label or other reporter molecule attached, is then used to screen for the antibody component of the GAD complex.
One skilled in the art will immediately recognise that the assays as contemplated herein may be modified without departing from the scope of the present invention. All such modifications and variations of these assays are encompassed by the present invention.
The invention also extends to use of the peptides and/or polypeptides, or fragments, or derivatives of the present invention in the treatment of patients. In this later aspect, such methods of treatment include their use as an adsorbent to remove autoantibodies or autoreactive cells from a patient, their use in direct administration to a patient as a means of desensitising or inducing tolerance to eliminate or diminish reactivity of autoreactive T-cells or autoantibodies to the IDDM autoantigen or to generate T-cell lines or clones to be used for or as therapeutic agents.
As contemplated herein, the method of treatment includes but is not limited to the following examples of treatment. A first example of treatment is desensitisation or tolerance induction using an effective amount of GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof to alter T-cell recognition of GAD and induce T-cell suppression. This may be achieved by using the known effect of certain ultraviolet wavelengths, especially UV-B, to modify antigen presentation through the skin (see 19). Effective amounts of GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof would be applied epicutaneously to the skin of subjects exhibiting peripheral blood T-cell reactivity to GAD, after exposure of skin to UV-B radiation. Treatment would be repeated until such time that T-cell reactivity to GAD was suppressed. A second treatment involves application of GAD to the skin together with one or more cytokines such as but not limited to TNFα or β. A third treatment involves T-cell immunisation whereby T-cell lines are generated to GAD peptide or polypeptide or fragments thereof by standard procedures, calls attenuated by fixation with agents such as glutaraldehyde or paraformaldehyde, washed under sterile conditions and re-injected to patients for a time and under conditions causing suppression of the endogenous T-cell response to GAD. These approaches of treatment are applicable to the prevention of clinical IDDM in asymptomatic subjects with preclinical IDDM or subjects with recent onset clinical IDDM, as well as to the recurrence of IDDM in subjects who have received pancreas islet cell or insulin-producing cell transplants. These approaches are also applicable to SMS and other diseases where GAD is an autoantigen. In accordance with the present invention the effective amount of GAD peptide or polypeptide is 0.1 μg to 10 mg per dose and preferably 1.0 μg to 1 mg per dose. A dose may comprise a single administration or an administration protocol. Administration may be by any convenient means such as, but not limited to, intravenous, subcutaneous, epicutaneous, infusion, oral, topical, intranasal, supository or intraperitoneal administration. The GAD peptide or polypeptide may be administered alone or in combination with one or more other active molecules, molecules which facilitate the GAD peptide or polypeptide activity such as cytokines, and in particular, TNF-α and/or TNF-β.
In yet a further embodiment, the present invention contemplates the use of a peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67K isoform of GAD, or antigenic fragments or derivatives thereof, to measure reactivity of a patient's cells to the IDDM autoantigen. The peptide or polypeptide, or fragments or derivatives thereof, may be added, in solution or bound to a solid support together with cells from a patient derived from peripheral blood or from tissue biopsies either unfractionated, fractionated or derived as a continuous cell line. Reactivity to the autoantigen may then be measured by standard proliferation assays such as incorporation of tritiated thymidine, standard cytotoxic assays such as release of marker radioactivity from target cells, measurements of expressed or secreted molecules such as cytokines or other standard assays of cellular reactivity which are well known in the art.
In one embodiment of this aspect of this invention there is provided a diagnostic kit for assaying patient T-cells. Standard 96 well plates, as used in ELISA assays, are pre-coated with a monoclonal antibody (MAb) to a T-cell cytcokine such as γ-interferon (γ-IFN) with or without antigen. Alternatively, antigen is added in soluble form together with aliquots of peripheral blood mononuclear cells or T-cells. Incubation is allowed to proceed for two or more days, the cells are washed off, wells washed again and plates developed with a labelled second MAb to the cytokine such as anti-γ-FN conjugated with alkaline phosphatase or horseradish peroxidase. Colorimetric reaction and read-out systems can then be utilised. Alternatively, it is possible to visualise microscopically individual spots on bottoms of wells representing cytokine produced at the single T-cell level, thereby enabling the precursor frequency of antigen-reactive T-cells to be determined.
The present invention encompasses other forms of kits and diagnostic assays including a kit comprising a container adapted to contain a synthetic peptide or polypeptide corresponding to the 67 isoform of GAD or its fragments, derivatives, homologues and/or immunological relatives. The kit may contain a second container adapted to contain or receive a sample to be tested. A third container may be present adapted to contain reagents for detecting GAD-antibody complexes. Alternatively, where the kit is to detect GAD immune complexes, the kit may comprise one or more containers (e.g. wells) adapted to contain a GAD specific antibody (e.g. a monoclonal antibody). Additional containers with the kit may then contain recepticles for receiving fluid samples and a labelled antibody.
In further accordance with the present invention, expression of the cDNA insert encoding the GAD's described herein or fragments thereof, may be achieved in a number of different ways.
As an example, successful expression of the autoantigen as a fusion protein can be achieved using the pGEX vectors which give expression of glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins, using E. coli as the host cells. Expression could also be achieved, by way of example, using the well-known pEV vectors or the, polyhistidine expression vectors (23) again using E. coli as the host cells. Alternatively, GAD may be expressed as a non-fused polypeptide, by using appropriate vector and host cell combinations. Other vector and host cell combinations which can be used in accordance with the present invention including a number of well described yeast shuttle vectors for use in yeast cells, or eukaryotic vectors useful in continuous cell lines, (eg CHO cells) or transgenic animals.
The present invention will now be further described with reference to the following non-limiting Examples.
Mouse RNA. Mouse RNA was obtained from brains of BALB/C mice.
Humnan RNA. RNA was obtained from human adult brain and pancreatic islets. Islets were isolated from a donor pancreas by an intraductal collagenase distension procedure. Individually hand-picked islets were lysed in 5M guanidinium isothiocynate, 10 mM Tris pH 7.6, 10 mM EDTA and RNA purified by centrifugation through a 5.7M CsCl cushion. Total RNA from human brain was a gift of Claude Bernard from Latrobe University School of Behavioural Science, Australia.
Human cDNA libraries Two λgt-11 based human cDNA expression libraries were used as a source of GAD cDNA. A brain-stem cDNA library was purchased from Clonetech and the islet-cell library was a gift of Alan Permutt from the Washington School of Medicine, St. Louis. cDNA was prepared from phage stocks by a plate lysis method (20).
Polymease chain reaction (PCR). Based on the published rat (9) and feline (10) GAD cDNA sequences, oligonucleotide primers were designed from conserved regions. The primers used to isolate the various clones are shown in Table 1. First strand synthesis of total RNA (1 μg) was performed in 10 mM Tris pH 8.3, 50 mM KCl, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 100 μM dNTPs (PCR buffer) containing 2 pmole of complimentary primer, 40 U of RNasin and 5 U of MoMLV reverse transcriptase at 37° C. for 30 min in a 50 μl reaction volume. λgt-11 cDNA (100 ng) or 10 μl of the first strand reaction was amplified in PCR buffer containing 20 pmole of each primer and 2.5 U of TaqI polymerase by 30 thermal cycles (one cycle: 1.5 min at 95° C.; 2.0 min at 37°-45° C.; 2.0 min at 72° C.). Reactions were analysed on low melting agarose gels and products of the expected size purified by phenol extraction (20).
Cloning and DNA sequencing. PCR amplified DNA fragments were cloned into the plasmid expression vector pGEX 1-3(21) and also into the histidine expression vector pDS56,(-1) and (-2) (23). Nucleotide sequence was determined by the dideoxy chain termination method (22) using the M13 universal primer and specific primers (RGAD 1, SEQ ID NO.: 15; RGAD2, SEQ ID NO.: 16; RGAD3, SEQ ID NO.: 17; RGAD4, SEQ ID NO.: 18; RGAD5, SEQ ID NO.: 19; RGAD6, SEQ ID NO.: 20; GAD1, SEQ ID NO.: 21; GAD5, SEQ ID NO.: 22; GAD7, SEQ ID NO.: 23) designed from internal GAD sequence, as described in Table 1.
TABLE 1 __________________________________________________________________________ ORIGIN OF GAD cDNA CLONES AA REGION GAD EQUIVALENT TO PCR CLONE FELINE GAD SOURCE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES 5'-3' __________________________________________________________________________ MBGAD 12 1-204 BRAIN RNA RGAD1 SEQ ID NO:15 ATTGGATCCACCGAGCTGATGGCGTCTT C RGAD2 SEQ ID NO:16 CCGAATTCGCCATTCGCCAGCTAAACC 1 MBGAD34 198-404 BRAIN RNA RGAD3 SEQ ID NO:17 ATTGGATCCGGTTTAGCTGGCGAATGGC 7 RGAD4 SEQ ID NO:18 CCGAATTCTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC . MGAD56 392-593 BRAIN RNA RGAD5 SEQ ID NO:19 ATTGGATCCGTCACCTGGAACCCTCACA RGAD6 SEQ ID NO:20 CCGAATTCATTACAGATCCTGGCCCA HBGAD 208-404 BRAIN cDNA LIBRARY GAD1 SEQ ID NO:21 ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA RGAD4 SEQ ID NO:22 CCCAATTCTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC HIGAD 208-404 ISLET cDNA LIBRARY GAD1 SEQ ID NO:21 ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA RGAD4 SEQ ID NO:23 CCGAATTCTCTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC HBGAD17 1-250 BRAIN RNA RGAD1 SEQ ID NO:15 ATTGGATCCACCGAGCTGATGGCGTCTT C GAD7 SEQ ID NO:23 GGAGAAAATATCCCATCACC HBGAD14 208-404 BRAIN RNA GAD1 SEQ ID NO:21 ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA RGAD4 SEQ ID NO:18 CCGAATTCTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC HBGAD65 392-594 BRAIN RNA GAD6 SEQ ID NO:25 ATTGGATCCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAA GAD5 SEQ ID NO:22 CCCATAAACTCATGTTCTTG HBGAD-FL 1-594 BRAIN RNA RGAD1 SEQ ID NO:15 ATTGGATCCACCGAGCTGATGGCGTCTT C HIBAD-FL 1-594 PANCREAS RNA GAD5 SEQ ID NO:22 CCCATAAACTCATGTTCTTG HIGAD14 208-404 ISLET RNA GAD1 SEQ ID NO:21 ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA RGAD4 SEQ ID NO:18 CCGAATTCTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC __________________________________________________________________________
To clone human GAD cDNA, oligonucleotide pairs overlapping nucleotide stretches conserved between rat and feline sequences were synthesised and used in PCR reactions to amplify cDNA extracted from brain and islet λt-11 expression libraries as well as from RNA extracted from human brain or human islets. In extensive PCR reactions using various combinations of oligonucleotide primers and temperatures of annealing, a product of 600 nucleotides was obtained from both brain and islet cDNA templates with the oligonucleotides primers:
5' ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA 3' SEQ ID NO: 21 and
5' CCGAATTCTGTAGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC 3' SEQ ID NO.:24) (complementary, contains an Eco RI site) which would correspond to nucleotide positions 739-768 and 1312-1330 of the published feline cDNA (10), respectively, representing the middle portion of the GAD open reading frame. The two 600 nucleotide PCR products were digested with EcoRI and SmaI ligated with pGEX-3X DNA cleaved with EcoRI and SmaI and transformed into E. coli. Restriction analysis of plasmid DNA from transformants identified a human brian GAD clone (HBGAD) and an islet GAD clone (HIGAD).
The 540 nucleotide DNA sequences determined for both HBGAD and HIGAD, excluding the oligonucleotide sequences, are shown in FIG. 1. These two sequences display 90% similarity with the feline GAD sequence and therefore, confirm the identity of the human clones. Alignment of the HBGAD sequence with the HIGAD sequence showed that they were identical except for four nucleotide changes at position 88 (T-A), 91(T-C) 128(C-T) and 366(C-T).
FIG. 2 shows the deduced amino acid sequences of HBGAD and HIGAD and their alignment with the corresponding region in the feline GAD protein (aa 218-393). The four nucleotide differences between HBGAD and HIGAD would result in three conservative amino acid changes at residues 247 (leucine→isoleucine) and 260 (threonine→isoleucine) and 248 (phenylalanine→leucine); residue 339 (leucine) remains unchanged because the nucleotide difference at position 366 is silent. These amino acid differences between the middle one-third of the brain and islet GAD proteins provide evidence for the existence of isomeric forms of GAD in human tissue.
Infiltration of the pancreatic islets with mononuclear cells culminates in the destruction of insulin-producing β cells and clinical IDDM (20). The enzyme GAD has recently been identified as a putative islet autoantigen in IDDM based on the ability of several IDDM sera to co-precipitate the 64K islet cell protein and GAD (14) and it has been shown that peripheral blood T cells from subjects with pre-clinical and clinical IDDM can be activated by islet membrane preparations containing the 64K autoantigen and GAD (24, 25). The finding of sequence differences between brain and islet GAD may now provide a genetic basis for selective autoimmune destruction of pancreatic islets.
Normal brain RNA was reverse-transcribed with either GAD 5 SEQ ID NO: 22 (5' CCCATAAACTCATGTTCTTG 3') or GAD 7 SEQ ID NO: 23 (5' GGAGAAAATATCCCATCACC 3') oligonucleotides. As shown in Table 1, amplification of the GAD7 and GAD5 first strand products by PCR using GAD specific oligonucleotides generated a cDNA encoding aa 1-250 HBGAD17 and an overlapping cDNA that encodes aa 208-594. One hundred nanograms of each fragment was denatured at 95° C. in PCR buffer and hybrid molecules extended and amplified using RGAD 1 and GAD 5 oligonucleotides that anneal at the end of the hybridised molecules (Table 1) to generate a full length human GAD clone that encodes the 594aa GAD open reading frame to generate a full length HBGAD and HIGAD (FIGS. 7 and 11).
Mouse Brain GAD was cloned as described above for HBGAD and HIGAD except that primers RGAD1 and RGAD6 (Table 1) were used.
67 subjects were tested for their T-cell response to HBGAD and HIGAD.
Subject backgrounds were as follows:
15 Recent onset clinical Diabetics (less than 3 months after onset of symptoms)
44 Pre-clinical Diabetics (asymptomatic first degree relatives of a person with IDDM who are positive for islet cell antibodies that react with islets in frozen sections of human pancreas)
8 Controls (normal healthy young adults)
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were separated by Ficoll Hypaque density gradient centrifugation, and washed twice. The cells were then resuspended (2×106 /ml) in complete culture medium (RPMI 1640 with Hepes buffer 20 mM, penicillin 100 units/ml, streptomycin 100 μl/ml, 10-5 M 2-mercaptoethanol and 5% autologous serum) and seeded (200 μl/well) into 96 well round-bottomed microtitre plates. The recombinant GAD fusion proteins HBGAD and HIGAD which contain the 196 amino acid middle portions of human brain and human islet GAD respectively, as described in Table 1 were added to final concentrations of 10, 1.0 and 0.1 μg/ml, together with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) to which the recombinant GAD antigen is fused. Sonicated fetal pig islets, which the present inventors have shown to contain GAD (24), as well as fetal pig liver, thyroid and kidney were also used as sources of antigen(s).
The cultures were incubated for 5 days in a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere with the addition of 3 H-thymidine (1 μCi/well) for the last 17 hours. The cells were then harvested for scintillation counting. Median counts per minute (cpm) of each quadruplicate were used to derive stimulation indices, ie. cpm with antigen/cpm without antigen. A positive result was defined as a stimulation index greater than that obtained with GST (recombinant GAD proteins or greater than 2.0 (fetal tissues).
TABLE 2 ______________________________________ Reactivity of Peripheral Blood T-cells Antigens H islet H brain Fetal pig Subject group GAD14 GAD14 proislets ______________________________________Recent onset 10/15 8/14 5/12 clinical diabetes Preclinical diabetes 25/44 18/36 16/34 Controls 3/8 3/8 1/8 ______________________________________
The results shown in Table 2 indicate that overall, 35/59 (59%) recent onset or preclinical subjects have circulating T-cells capable of proliferating in response to human islet GAD and (26/50) 52% to human brain GAD.
Sera samples from subjects were tested for an antibody response to the N-terminal fragment of recombinant murine brain GAD, MBGAD12 as well as against the full length recombinant human brain GAD.
Protein Used As Antigen
Recombinant mouse brain GAD12 was cloned and expressed as a fusion protein with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) in the pGEX system. MBGAD12 was cleaved with thrombin and the GAD portion affinity purified from GST using glutathione agarose beads. MBGAD34, MBGAD56, HBGAD17 and HBGAD65 were cloned and expressed as fusion proteins with six histidine residues at the N-terminus using the polyhistidine expression system.
ELISAS
In all ELISA assays, the recombinant GAD proteins, were coated at 1 μg/mL on plastic wells of a 96-well plate, wells were exposed to blocking buffer, washed and incubated with doubling dilutions of test sera, washed and exposed to alkaline phosphatase--conjugated second antibody, washed, developed with n-nitrophenol chromogen and read at 405 nM. An OD>mean+2 SD with control sera was taken as positive.
Subject Patients were as follows:
The results of ELISA using MBGAD12, MBGAD34 and MBGAD56, and HBGAD17 and HBGAD65 are shown in Tables 3 and 4, respectively:
TABLE 3 ______________________________________ MBGAD12 MBGAD34 MBGAD56 ______________________________________ Preclinical IDDM 5/9 5/9 4/9 Recent onset Clinical IDDM 2/13 4/13 3/13 Controls 0/22 0/20 0/20 ______________________________________
Seven of nine (78%) preclinical IDDM and six of 13 (46%) recent-onset IDDM sera reacted with at least one of the MBGAD peptides. Only three of nine (33%) and one of 13 (8%) preclinical and recent onset IDDM sera, respectively, reacted with all three MBGAD fragments. None of the three GAD peptides was recognised preferentially by either sera group. These findings indicate that patterns of sera reactivity with recombinant MBGAD are heterogenous and that at least three major epitopes exist in the GAD67 isoform.
TABLE 4 ______________________________________ SUBJECTS HBGAD 17 HBGAD65 ______________________________________ Pre-clinical IDDM 7/9 3/9 Recent onset IDDM 3/7 3/7 Controls 0/16 0/16 ______________________________________
The results using the two human brain GAD fragments HBGAD17 and HBGAD65 in an ELISA format are comparable with those obtained using are equivalent mouse brain GAD peptides MBGAD12 and MBGAD56.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention described herein is susceptible to variations and modifications other than susceptible to variations and modifications other than those specifically described. It is to be understood that the invention includes all such variations and modifications. The invention also includes all of the steps, features, compositions and compounds referred to or indicated in this specification, individually or collectively, and any and all combinations of any two or more of said steps or features.
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__________________________________________________________________________ SEQUENCE LISTING (1) GENERAL INFORMATION: (iii) NUMBER OF SEQUENCES: 25 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:1: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 543 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:1: ATTGCACCCGTGTTTGTTCTCATGGAACAGATTACTCTTAAGAAGATGAGAAAGATCGTT60 GGATGGTCAAATAAAGATGGTGATGGGTTATTTTCTCCTGGGGGAGCCATATCCAATATG120 TACAGCACCATGGCTGCTCGTTACAAGTACTTCCCAGAAGTGAAGACAAAAGGCATGGCG180 GCTGTGCCCAAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACACAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCC240 GGGGCTGCGCTTGGCTTTGGAACCGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGG300 AAGATAATTCCGGCTGATTTAGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGATGCCAAACAAAAGGGCTATGTT360 CCCCTCTATGTCAATGCAACCGCAGGCACGACTGTTTACGGAGCATTCGATCCAATCCAG420 GAAATTGCGGACATATGTGAGAAATACAACCTTTGGCTGCATGTGGATGCTGCCTGGGGT480 GGTGGACTGCTCATGTCCCGGAAGCACCGCCACAAACTCAGCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAAT540 TCA543 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:2: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 543 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:2: ATTGCACCCGTGTTTGTTCTCATGGAACAGATTACTCTTAAGAAGATGAGAAAGATCGTT60 GGATGGTCAAATAAAGATGGTGATGGGTTACTTTCTCCTGGGGGAGCCATATCCAATATG120 TACAGCATCATGGCTGCTCGTTACAAGTACTTCCCAGAAGTGAAGACAAAAGGCATGGCG180 GCTGTGCCCAAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACACAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCC240 GGGGCTGCGCTTGGCTTTGGAACCGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGG300 AAGATAATTCCGGCTGATTTAGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGATGCCAAACAAAAGGGCTATGTT360 CCCCTTTATGTCAATGCAACCGCAGGCACGACTGTTTACGGAGCATTCGATCCAATCCAG420 GAAATTGCGGACATATGTGAGAAATACAACCTTTGGCTGCATGTGGATGCTGCCTGGGGT480 GGTGGACTGCTCATGTCCCGGAAGCACCGCCACAAACTCAGCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAAT540 TCA543 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:3: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 181 amino acids (B) TYPE: amino acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: protein (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:3: IleAlaProValPheValLeuMetGluGlnIleThrLeuLysLysMet 151015 ArgLysIleValGlyTrpSerAsnLysAspGlyAspGlyLeuPheSer 202530 ProGlyGlyAlaIleSerAsnMetTyrSerThrMetAlaAlaArgTyr 354045 LysTyrPheProGluValLysThrLysGlyMetAlaAlaValProLys 505560 LeuValLeuPheThrSerGluHisSerHisTyrSerIleLysLysAla 65707580 GlyAlaAlaLeuGlyPheGlyThrAspAsnValIleLeuIleLysCys 859095 AsnGluArgGlyLysIleIleProAlaAspLeuGluAlaLysIleLeu 100105110 AspAlaLysGlnLysGlyTyrValProLeuTyrValAsnAlaThrAla 115120125 GlyThrThrValTyrGlyAlaPheAspProIleGlnGluIleAlaAsp 130135140 IleCysGluLysTyrAsnLeuTrpLeuHisValAspAlaAlaTrpGly 145150155160 GlyGlyLeuLeuMetSerArgLysHisArgHisLysLeuSerGlyIle 165170175 GluArgAlaAsnSer 180 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:4: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 181 amino acids (B) TYPE: amino acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: protein (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:4: IleAlaProValPheValLeuMetGluGlnIleThrLeuLysLysMet 151015 ArgLysIleValGlyTrpSerAsnLysAspGlyAspGlyIleLeuSer 202530 ProGlyGlyAlaIleSerAsnMetTyrSerIleMetAlaAlaArgTyr 354045 LysTyrPheProGluValLysThrLysGlyMetAlaAlaValProLys 505560 LeuValLeuPheThrSerGluHisSerHisTyrSerIleLysLysAla 65707580 GlyAlaAlaLeuGlyPheGlyThrAspAsnValIleLeuIleLysCys 859095 AsnGluArgGlyLysIleIleProAlaAspLeuGluAlaLysIleLeu 100105110 AspAlaLysGlnLysGlyTyrValProLeuTyrValAsnAlaThrAla 115120125 GlyThrThrValTyrGlyAlaPheAspProIleGlnGluIleAlaAsp 130135140 IleCysGluLysTyrAsnLeuTrpLeuHisValAspAlaAlaTrpGly 145150155160 GlyGlyLeuLeuMetSerArgLysHisArgHisLysLeuSerGlyIle 165170175 GluArgAlaAsnSer 180 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:5: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 181 amino acids (B) TYPE: amino acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: protein (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:5: IleAlaProValPheValLeuMetGluGlnIleThrLeuLysLysMet 151015 ArgGluIleValGlyTrpSerSerLysAspGlyAspGlyIlePheSer 202530 ProGlyGlyAlaIleSerAsnMetTyrSerIleMetAlaAlaArgTyr 354045 LysPhePheProGluValLysThrLysGlyMetAlaAlaValProLys 505560 LeuValLeuPheThrSerGluHisSerHisTyrSerIleLysLysAla 65707580 GlyAlaAlaLeuGlyPheGlyThrAspAsnValIleLeuIleLysCys 859095 AsnGluArgGlyLysIleIleProAlaAspLeuGluAlaLysIleLeu 100105110 GluAlaLysGlnLysGlyTyrValProLeuTyrValAsnAlaThrAla 115120125 GlyThrThrValTyrGlyAlaPheAspProIleGlnGluIleAlaAsp 130135140 IleCysGluLysTyrAsnLeuTrpLeuHisValAspAlaAlaTrpGly 145150155160 GlyGlyLeuLeuMetSerArgLysHisArgHisLysLeuSerGlyIle 165170175 GluArgAlaAsnSer 180 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:6: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 1782 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:6: ATGGCGTCTTCCACTCCTTCGCCTGCAACCTCCTCGAACGCGGGAGCGGATCCTAATACT60 ACCAACCTGCGCCCTACAACGTATGATACTTGGTGTGGCGTAGCCCATGGATGCACCAGA120 AAACTGGGCCTGAAGATCTGTGGCTTCTTACAAAGGACCAATAGCCTGGAAGAGAAGAGT180 CGTCTTGTGAGCGCCTTCAGGGAGAGGCAGTCCTCCAAGAACCTGCTTTCCTGTGAAAAC240 AGTGACCAGGGTGCCCGCTTCCGGCGCACAGAGACCGACTTCTCCAACCTGTTTGCTCAA300 GATCTGCTTCCAGCTAAGAACGGGGAGGAGCAAACTGCGCAGTTCTTGCTGGAAGTGGTA360 GACATACTCCTCAACTATGTCCGCAAGACATTTGATCGCTCCACCAAGGTTCTGGATTTC420 CACCACCCACACCAGTTGCTGGAAGGCATGGAAGGCTTTAATTTGGAGCTGTCTGACCAC480 CCCGAGTCTCTGGAGCAGATCCTGGTTGACTGTAGAGACACCCTGAAGTACGGGGTTCGC540 ACAGGTCACCCTCGATTTTTCAACCAGCTCTCTACTGGTTTGGATATCATTGGTTTAGCT600 GGCGAATGGCTGACATCGACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGAAATTGCACCCGTG660 TTTGTTCTCATGGAACAGATTACTCTTAAGAAGATGAGAAAGATCGTTGGATGGTCAAAT720 AAAGATGGTGATGGGATATTTTCTCCTGGGGGAGCCATATCCAATATGTACAGCATCATG780 GCTGCTCGTTACAAGTACTTCCCAGAAGTGAAGACAAAAGGCATGGCGGCTGTGCCCAAA840 CTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACACAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCCGGGGCTGCGCTT900 GGCTTTGGAACCGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGGAAGATAATTCCG960 GCTGATTTAGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGATGCCAAACAAAAGGGCTATGTTCCCCTTTATGTC1020 AATGCAACCGCAGGCACGACTGTTTACGGAGCATTCGATCCAATCCAGGAAATTGCGGAC1080 ATATGTGAGAAATACAACCTTTGGCTGCATGTGGATGCTGCCTGGGGTGGTGGACTGCTC1140 ATGTCCCGGAAGCACCGCCACAAACTCAGCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAATTCAGTCACCTGG1200 AACCCTCACAAGATGATGGGCGTGCTGCTCCAGTGCTCTGCCATTCTGGTCAAGGAAAAG1260 GGTATACTCCAAGGATGCAACCAGATGTGTGCAGGCTACCTCTTCCAGCCAGACAAGCAG1320 TATGACGTCTCCTATGACACCGGGGACAAGGCGATTCAGTGTGGCCGCCATGTGGACATC1380 TTCAAGTTCTGGCTGATGTGGAAAGCAAAGGGCACCGTGGGATTTGAAAACCAGATCAAC1440 AAATGCCTGGAGCTGGCTGATTACCTCTACGCCAAGATTAAAAACAGAGAAGAGTTTGAG1500 ATGGTTTTCGATGGTGAGCCTGAGCACACAAATGTCTGTTTCTGGTACATTCCACAAAGC1560 CTTCGAGGGGTTCCAGATAGCCCTGAGCGACGAGAAAAGCTACACAGGGTGGCTCCCAAG1620 ATCAAAGCTCTGATGATGGAGTCAGGAACAACCATGGTGGGCTACCAGCCTCAAGGGGAC1680 AAGGCCAACTTCTTCCGGATGGTCATCTCTAACCCAGCCGCCACCCAGTCTGACATCGAT1740 TTCCTCATTGAGGAGATAGAGAGGTTGGGCCAGGATCTGTAA1782 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:7: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 609 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:7: ATGGCGTCTTCCACTCCTTCGCCTGCAACCTCCTCGAACGCGGGAGCGGATCCTAATACT60 ACCAACCTGCGCCCTACAACGTATGATACTTGGTGTGGCGTAGCCCATGGATGCACCAGA120 AAACTGGGCCTGAAGATCTGTGGCTTCTTACAAAGGACCAATAGCCTGGAAGAGAAGAGT180 CGTCTTGTGAGCGCCTTCAGGGAGAGGCAGTCCTCCAAGAACCTGCTTTCCTGTGAAAAC240 AGTGACCAGGGTGCCCGCTTCCGGCGCACAGAGACCGACTTCTCCAACCTGTTTGCTCAA300 GATCTGCTTCCAGCTAAGAACGGGGAGGAGCAAACTGCGCAGTTCTTGCTGGAAGTGGTA360 GACATACTCCTCAACTATGTCCGCAAGACATTTGATCGCTCCACCAAGGTTCTGGATTTC420 CACCACCCACACCAGTTGCTGGAAGGCATGGAAGGCTTTAATTTGGAGCTGTCTGACCAC480 CCCGAGTCTCTGGAGCAGATCCTGGTTGACTGTAGAGACACCCTGAAGTACGGGGTTCGC540 ACAGGTCACCCTCGATTTTTCAACCAGCTCTCTACTGGTTTGGATATCATTGGTTTAGCT600 GGCGAATGG609 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:8: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 618 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:8: GGTTTAGCTGGCGAATGGCTGACATCGACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGAAATT60 GCACCCGTGTTTGTTCTCATGGAACAGATTACTCTTAAGAAGATGAGAAAGATCGTTGGA120 TGGTCAAATAAAGATGGTGATGGGATATTTTCTCCTGGGGGAGCCATATCCAATATGTAC180 AGCATCATGGCTGCTCGTTACAAGTACTTCCCAGAAGTGAAGACAAAAGGCATGGCGGCT240 GTGCCCAAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACACAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCCGGG300 GCTGCGCTTGGCTTTGGAACCGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGGAAG360 ATAATTCCGGCTGATTTAGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGATGCCAAACAAAAGGGCTATGTTCCC420 CTTTATGTCAATGCAACCGCAGGCACGACTGTTTACGGAGCATTCGATCCAATCCAGGAA480 ATTGCGGACATATGTGAGAAATACAACCTTTGGCTGCATGTGGATGCTGCCTGGGGTGGT540 GGACTGCTCATGTCCCGGAAGCACCGCCACAAACTCAGCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAATTCA600 GTCACCTGGAACCCTCAC618 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:9: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 612 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:9: GGCATAGAAAGGGCCAATTCAGTCACCTGGAACCCTCACAAGATGATGGGCGTGCTGCTC60 CAGTGCTCTGCCATTCTGGTCAAGGAAAAGGGTATACTCCAAGGATGCAACCAGATGTGT120 GCAGGCTACCTCTTCCAGCCAGACAAGCAGTATGACGTCTCCTATGACACCGGGGACAAG180 GCGATTCAGTGTGGCCGCCATGTGGACATCTTCAAGTTCTGGCTGATGTGGAAAGCAAAG240 GGCACCGTGGGATTTGAAAACCAGATCAACAAATGCCTGGAGCTGGCTGATTACCTCTAC300 GCCAAGATTAAAAACAGAGAAGAGTTTGAGATGGTTTTCGATGGTGAGCCTGAGCACACA360 AATGTCTGTTTCTGGTACATTCCACAAAGCCTTAGAGGGGTTCCAGATAGCCCTGAGCGA420 CGAGAAAAGCTACACAGGGTGGCTCCCAAGATCAAAGCTCTGATGATGGAGTCAGGAACA480 ACCATGGTCGGCTACCAGCCTCAAGGGGACAAGGCCAACTTCTTCCGGATGGTCATCTCT540 AACCCAGCCGCCACCCAGTCTGACATCGATTTCCTCATTGAGGAGATAGAGAGGTTGGGC600 CAGGATCTGTAA612 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:10: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 1785 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:10: ATGGCGTCTTCGACCCCATCTTCGTCCGCAACCTCCTCGAACGCGGGAGCGGACCCCAAT60 ACCACTAACCTGCGCCCCACAACGTACGATACCTGGTGCGGCGTGGCCCATGGATGCACC120 AGAAAACTGGGGCTCAAGATCTGCGGCTTCTTGCAAAGGACCAACAGCCTGGAAGAGAAG180 AGTCGCCTTGTGAGTGCCTTCAAGGAGAGGCAATCCTCCAAGAACCTGCTTTCCTGTGAA240 AACAGCGACCGGGATGCCCGCTTCCGGCGCACAGAGACTGACTTCTCTAATCTGTTTGCT300 AGAGATCTGCTTCCGGCTAAGAACGGTGAGGAGCAAACCGTGCAATTCCTCCTGGAAGTG360 GTGGACATACTCCTCAACTATGTCCGCAAGACATTTGATCGCTCCACCAAGGTGCTGGAC420 TTTCATCACCCACACCAGTTGCTGGAAGGCATGGAGGGCTTCAACTTGGAGCTCTCTGAC480 CACCCCGAGTCCCTGGAGCAGATCCTGGTCGACTGCAGAGACACCTTGAAGTATGGGGTT540 CGCACAGGTCATCCTCGATTTTTCAACCAGCTCTCCACTGGATTGGATATTATTGGCCTA600 GCTGGAGAATGGCTGACATCAACGGCCAATACCAACATGTTCACATATGAAATTGCACCA660 GTGTTTGTCCTCATGGAACAAATAACACTTAAGAAGATGAGAGAGATAGTTGGATGGTCA720 AGTAAAGATGGTGATGGGATATTTTCTCCTGGGGGCGCCATATCCAACATGTACAGCATC780 ATGGCTGCTCGCTACAAGTACTTCCCGGAAGTTAAGACAAAGGGCATGGCGGCTGTGCCT840 AAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACAGAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCTGGGGCTGCA900 CTTGGCTTTGGAACTGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGGAAAATAATT960 CCAGCTGATTTTGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGAAGCCAAACAGAAGGGATATGTTCCCTTTTAT1020 GTCAATGCAACTGCTGGCACGACTGTTTATGGAGCTTTTGATCCGATACAAGAGATTGCA1080 GATATATGTGAGAAATATAACCTTTGGTTGCATGTCGATGCTGCCTGGGGAGGTGGGCTG1140 CTCATGTCCAGGAAGCACCGCCATAAACTCAACGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAACTCAGTCACC1200 TGGAACCCTCACAAGATGATGGGCGTGCTGTTGCAGTGCTCTGCCATTCTCGTCAAGGAA1260 AAGGGTATACTCCAAGGATGCAACCAGATGTGTGCAGGATACCTCCTCCAGCCAGACAAG1320 CAGTATGATGTCTCCTACGACACCGGGGACAAGGCAATTCAGTGTGGCCGCCACGTGGAT1380 ATCTTCAAGTTCTGGCTGATGTGGAAAGCAAAGGGCACAGTGGGATTTGAAAACCAGATC1440 AACAAATGCCTGGAACTGGCTGAATACCTCTATGCCAAGATTAAAAACAGAGAAGAATTT1500 GAGATGGTTTTCAATGGCGAGCCTGAGCACACAAACGTCTGTTTTTGGTATATTCCACAA1560 AGCCTCAGGGGTGTGCCAGACAGCCCTCAACGACGGGAAAAGCTACACAAGGTGGCTCCA1620 AAAATCAAAGCCCTGATGATGGAGTCAGGTACGACCATGGTTGGCTACCAGCCCCAAGGG1680 GACAAGGCCAACTTCTTCCGGATGGTCATCTCCAACCCAGCCGCTACCCAGTCTGACATT1740 GACTTCCTCATTGAGGAGATAGAAAGACTGGGCCAGGATCTGTAA1785 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:11: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 750 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:11: ATGGCGTCTTCGACCCCATCTTCGTCCGCAACCTCCTCGAACGCGGGAGCGGACCCCAAT60 ACCACTAACCTGCGCCCCACAACGTACGATACCTGGTGCGGCGTGGCCCATGGATGCACC120 AGAAAACTGGGGCTCAAGATCTGCGGCTTCTTGCAAAGGACCAACAGCCTGGAAGAGAAG180 AGTCGCCTTGTGAGTGCCTTCAAGGAGAGGCAATCCTCCAAGAACCTGCTTTCCTGTGAA240 AACAGCGACCGGGATGCCCGCTTCCGGCGCACAGAGACTGACTTCTCTAATCTGTTTGCT300 AGAGATCTGCTTCCGGCTAAGAACGGTGAGGAGCAAACCGTGCAATTCCTCCTGGAAGTG360 GTGGACATACTCCTCAACTATGTCCGCAAGACATTTGATCGCTCCACCAAGGTGCTGGAC420 TTTCATCACCCACACCAGTTGCTGGAAGGCATGGAGGGCTTCAACTTGGAGCTCTCTGAC480 CACCCCGAGTCCCTGGAGCAGATCCTGGTCGACTGCAGAGACACCTTGAAGTATGGGGTT540 CGCACAGGTCATCCTCGATTTTTCAACCAGCTCTCCACTGGATTGGATATTATTGGCCTA600 GCTGGAGAATGGCTGACATCAACGGCCAATACCAACATGTTCACATATGAAATTGCACCA660 GTGTTTGTCCTCATGGAACAAATAACACTTAAGAAGATGAGAGAGATAGTTGGATGGTCA720 AGTAAAGATGGTGATGGGATATTTTCTCCT750 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:12: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 591 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:12: ACGGCCAATACCAACATGTTCACATATGAAATTGCACCAGTGTTTGTCCTCATGGAACAA60 ATAACACTTAAGAAGATGAGAGAGATAGTTGGATGGTCAAGTAAAGATGGTGATGGGATA120 TTTTCTCCTGGGGGCGCCATATCCAACATGTACAGCATCATGGCTGCTCGCTACAAGTAC180 TTCCCGGAAGTTAAGACAAAGGGCATGGCGGCTGTGCCTAAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCA240 GAACAGAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCTGGGGCTGCACTTGGCTTTGGAACTGACAAT300 GTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGGAAAATAATTCCAGCTGATTTTGAGGCAAAA360 ATTCTTGAAGCCAAACAGAAGGGATATGTTCCCTTTTATGTCAATGCAACTGCTGGCACG420 ACTGTTTATGGAGCTTTTGATCCGATACAAGAGATTGCAGATATATGTGAGAAATATAAC480 CTTTGGTTGCATGTCGATGCTGCCTGGGGAGGTGGGCTGCTCATGTCCAGGAAGCACCGC540 CATAAACTCAACGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAACTCAGTCACCTGGAACCCTCAC591 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:13: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 612 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:13: GGCATAGAAAGGGCCAACTCAGTCACCTGGAACCCTCACAAGATGATGGGCGTGCTGTTG60 CAGTGCTCTGCCATTCTCGTCAAGGAAAAGGGTATACTCCAAGGATGCAACCAGATGTGT120 GCAGGATACCTCTTCCAGCCAGACAAGCAGTATGATGTCTCCTACGACACCGGGGACAAG180 GCAATTCAGTGTGGCCGCCACGTGGATATCTTCAAGTTCTGGCTGATGTGGAAAGCAAAG240 GGCACAGTGGGATTTGAAAACCAGATCAACAAATGCCTGGAACTGGCTGAATACCTCTAT300 GCCAAGATTAAAAACAGAGAAGAATTTGAGATGGTTTTCAATGGCGAGCCTGAGCACACA360 AACGTCTGTTTTTGGTATATTCCACAAAGCCTCAGGGGTGTGCCAGACAGCCCTCAACGA420 CGGGAAAAGCTACACAAGGTGGCTCCAAAAATCAAAGCCCTGATGATGGAGTCAGGTACG480 ACCATGGTTGGCTACCAGCCCCAAGGGGACAAGGCCAACTTCTTCCGGATGGTCATCTCC540 AACCCAGCCGCTACCCAGTCTGACATTGACTTCCTCATTGAGGAGATAGAAAGACTGGGC600 CAGGATCTGTAA612 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:14: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 1785 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA to mRNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:14: ATGGCGTCTTCGACCCCATCTTCGTCCGCAACCTCCTCGAACGCGGGAGCGGACCCCAAT60 ACCACTAACCTGCGCCCCACAACGTACGATACCTGGTGCGGCGTGGCCCATGGATGCACC120 AGAAAACTGGGGCTCAAGATCTGCGGCTTCTTGCAAAGGACCAACAGCCTGGAAGAGAAG180 AGTCGCCTTGTGAGTGCCTTCAAGGAGAGGCAATCCTCCAAGAACCTGCTTTCCTGTGAA240 AACAGCGACCGGGATGCCCGCTTCCGGCGCACAGAGACTGACTTCTCTAATCTGTTTGCT300 AGAGATCTGCTTCCGGCTAAGAACGGTGAGGAGCAAACCGTGCAATTCCTCCTGGAAGTG360 GTGGACATACTCCTCAACTATGTCCGCAAGACATTTGATCGCTCCACCAAGGTGCTGGAC420 TTTCATCACCCACACCAGTTGCTGGAAGGCATGGAGGGCTTCAACTTGGAGCTCTCTGAC480 CACCCCGAGTCCCTGGAGCAGATCCTGGTCGACTGCAGAGACACCTTGAAGTATGGGGTT540 CGCACAGGTCATCCTCGATTTTTCAACCAGCTCTCCACTGGATTGGATATTATTGGCCTA600 GCTGGAGAATGGCTGACATCAACGGCCAATACCAACATGTTCACATATGAAATTGCACCA660 GTGTTTGTCCTCATGGAACAAATAACACTTAAGAAGATGAGAGAGATAGTTGGATGGTCA720 AGTAAAGATGGTGATGGGATATTTTCTCCTGGGGGCGCCATATCCAACATGTACAGCATC780 ATGGCTGCTCGCTACAAGTACTTCCCGGAAGTTAAGACAAAGGGCATGGCGGCTGTGCCT840 AAACTGGTCCTCTTCACCTCAGAACAGAGTCACTATTCCATAAAGAAAGCTGGGGCTGCA900 CTTGGCTTTGGAACTGACAATGTGATTTTGATAAAGTGCAATGAAAGGGGGAAAATAATT960 CCAGCTGATTTTGAGGCAAAAATTCTTGAAGCCAAACAGAAGGGATATGTTCCCTTTTAT1020 GTCAATGCAACTGCTGGCACGACTGTTTATGGAGCTTTTGATCCGATACAAGAGATTGCA1080 GATATATGTGAGAAATATAACCTTTGGTTGCATGTCGATGCTGCCTGGGGAGGTGGGCTG1140 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SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 27 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:16: CCGAATTCGCCATTCGCCAGCTAAACC27 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:17: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 28 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:17: ATTGGATCCGGTTTAGCTGGCGAATGGC28 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:18: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 27 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:18: CCGAATTCTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC27 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:19: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 28 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:19: ATTGGATCCGTCACCTGGAACCCTCACA28 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:20: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 26 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:20: CCGAATTCATTACAGATCCTGGCCCA26 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:21: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 29 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:21: ACTGCCAATACCAATATGTTCACATATGA29 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:22: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 20 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:22: CCCATAAACTCATGTTCTTG20 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:23: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 20 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:23: GGAGAAAATATCCCATCACC20 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:24: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 28 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:24: CCGAATTCTGTAGAGGGTTCCAGGTGAC28 (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:25: (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS: (A) LENGTH: 26 base pairs (B) TYPE: nucleic acid (C) STRANDEDNESS: single (D) TOPOLOGY: linear (ii) MOLECULE TYPE: cDNA (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION: SEQ ID NO:25: ATTGGATCCGGCATAGAAAGGGCCAA26 __________________________________________________________________________
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1. A polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:3.
2. A polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:3.
3. A polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4.
4. A polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4.
5. A polypeptide having the amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6.
6. A polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6.
7. A polypeptide consisting of the polypeptide according to any one of claims 1, 3 or 5, and a contiguous second amino acid sequence.
8. A polypeptide according to claim 7 wherein said second amino acid sequence is glutathione-S-transferase (GST) or a portion thereof.
9. A polypeptide according to claim 7 wherein said second amino acid sequence comprises one or more histidine residues.
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